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Hunter, Robert. POVERTY. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1905.
Price: US$72.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo, 7.2 in. x 4.8 in., pp. xi, [1], 382, [2] (advertising). Burgundy cloth boards with two embossed bars to top and bottom of boards, and gilt title and bars to spine. Light rubbing to extremities; shelfwear to bottom of spine. Dime-sized stain to rear board. Light age-toning to pages. Unmarked interior. Robert Hunter (1874 - 1942) was an American sociologist, progressive author, and golf course architect.Hunter's politics were largely affected by the grinding poverty he witnessed during the deep economic depression that hit America in the mid-1890s, juxtaposed to the wealth and privilege of his own family. His time in Chicago had brought him in close contact with a number of social reformers such as Jane Addams, Mary McDowell, Ellen Gates Starr, and others. In 1905 Hunter joined the Socialist Party of America along with his wife, his brother-in-law, James Stokes, and his sister-in-law, Rose Pastor Stokes, On September 12 of that year he was named to the executive committee of the newly established Intercollegiate Socialist Society in New York. The goal of the organization was to promote discussion of socialist ideals in colleges and universities; it had for its first president writer Jack London and vice president Upton Sinclair. Hunter ran for political office twice on the socialist ticket, first for a seat in the New York State Assembly, and next as a candidate for United States Senator for the State of Connecticut; both campaigns ended in defeat. After the outbreak of the First World War a rift in the socialist movement led to Hunter's resignation, along with those of a number of other high-profile members, including London and Sinclair. (from Wikipedia).
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Jack London. War of the Classes. Macmillan and Co, 1905.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First printing. Covers shelfworn. Hinges cracked.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
LONDON, JACK. War of the Classes. Macmillan Company 1905, 1905.
Price: US$148.52 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, xix + 278pp + 3pp to rear, VG (ligth bruising & scuffing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning to page egdesv sl cracking to gutter)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Jack London. War of the Classes. NY: Macmillan, 1905.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Sisson & Martens pp. 22, 121, 138. One of only 2,530 copies printed. Points of identification: Maroon ribbed cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Two gold bands at the top and two gold bands at the bottom of the spine; the outer bands are 1/32 inch wide and the inner bands are 1/16 inch wide. Three pages of advertisements, pp. [279-281]; p. [282], blank; one blank leaf. The Macmillan Company type at base of spine is 1/8 inch high. Light wear to extremities; cloth rubbed and parted at top of spine. Previous owner's signature and two ownership stamps to front pastedown; signature dated May 1905, the month after publication in April 1905. Spine unevenly toned and faded. Top edge darkened. A couple of scuffs to rear cover. On the whole a very good copy.
Seller: Weather Rock Book Company, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Handsomely bound in finely woven blue cloth with a drawing of waterspout beneath a sailboat on the front boards. Stamped brightly in blue lettering on the front boards and in faded gold lettering on the spine. With a touch of fraying to the top of the spine ends and light wear to the corners. Very clean and tight throughout. With the postage-sized bookseller's stamp: Robertson's/ San Francisco at the bottom of the rear paste-down. A handsome, collectible copy of this autobiographical look at Jack London's days as an oyster pirate and devil-may-care sailor. With 4 pages of ads for Jack's scintillating novels at the back. Only 8,392 copies of the first edition were published. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, 1876 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone, including science fiction. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposés The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes. (Wikipedia) First Edition with matching dates of 1905 and with "Published September, 1905" on the copyright page. With no subsequent printings listed.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo (7 5/8" x 5 1/4"), red cloth with black lettering and B&W silhouette logo of a girl with book facing a similar boy inside a sylized room flanked by globes and prisms, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (bevelled edges; seemingly not price-clipped but with no price indicated) depicting stylized Fu Manchu-like long-mustached Chinese pirate against a red shadow as he holds a sailboat in his claw-like long-nailed hand, 243 pages. Exceedingly RARE and Fine copy in an Extraordinary dust jacket. Clean, tight, bright in a brilliant, sharp dust jacket (very slightly rubbed). First copyrighted by the Perry Mason Company in 1905, which serialized the tales in 7 issues of The Youth's Companion, Vol. 79, during February & March, 1905. The Macmillan Company, New York, also published their edition in 1905 with a colorful cover with sailboat, frontispiece and 7 plates. William Heinemann, London, also published these tales in 1905 with illustrations by George Varian. Jack London (born John Chaney; 1876 - 1916) was a bestselling American novelist, journalist, early science fiction writer, and social activist. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush; a dystopian novel, The Iron Heel; plus non-fiction exposés The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes. His short story "To Build a Fire" has become a classic. London also wrote about the Pacific Rim in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay," "The Heathen," and TALES OF THE FISH PATROL. As a youth, London had engaged in the dangerous plunder of oyster beds around San Francisco Bay. This collection of seven short stories recalls those rough years when he shifted from piracy to work on the Fish Patrol that struggled to protect fish and oysters from fearful pirates. First Thus (presumably reprints the Perry Mason Co. Boston edition from 1905).
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Octavo. Publisher's deep red ribbed cloth, titled in gilt on spine; xvii+278pp; 3pp ads. Bit of sunning and wear to cloth backstrip, slight soil to upper edge of text block, else a tight, VG or better copy. Small bookseller label (W.B. Clarke, Boston) at base of front pastedown. Collects seven of London's radical essays, most of which were originallly published in the International Socialist Review, including "The Tramp" and "How I Became A Socialist." BAL 11885. WOODBRIDGE 33.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. War of the Classes. The Macmillan Company, 1905.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Handsomely bound in finely woven vertically ribbed maroon cloth. Stamped very brightly with gilt rules and gilt lettering on the spine. With THE MACMILLAN COMPANY on the spine. With light wear to the extremities and one corner lightly bumped. With name and date in ink on the front paste-down. Very clean and tight throughout. With 3 pages of ads at the back. Contains his key essay: "How I Became a Socialst." A handsome collectible copy. Only 2,530 copies printed. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, 1876 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone, including science fiction. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposés The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes. (Wikipedia) First Edition with matching dates of 1905 and with "Published April, 1905" on the copyright page. With no subsequent printings listed.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.